Remember always that the least plain sister is the family beauty.

When people shake their heads because we are living in a restless age, ask them how they would like to life in a stationary one, and do without change

Every profession is a conspiracy against the laity.

It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.

I am giving you examples of the fact that this creature man, who in his own selfish affairs is a coward to the backbone, will fight for an idea like a hero. . . . I tell you, gentlemen, if you can shew a man a piece of what he now calls God's work to do, and what he will later call by many new names, you can make him entirely reckless of the consequences to himself personally.

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.

Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.